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Rh One of the bishop's sons about this time went into the army and joined the King's troops at Dublin, as appears by the following letter from Sir George Radcliffe to the bishop from Dublin:

"My very good lorde All I can rettume for yr Lps free and bountifull entertainment is my humble thankes, and a ready minde to serve yu wch is yr Lps due & my debt. On Saturday night wee came to sea, and had landed here ye next day by two or 3 of ye clocke had not ye darkenes of ye day made us fearefull to make ye land wch wee could not discerne. Plying therefore to and fro, a storme arose wch might well have beaten us backe againe into Wales; but the windes growing a little more calme, wee at length, about 10 or 11 a clock in ye night, wee recov'ed Skirres [Skirries], a place 12 miles hence, & so came to shore all safe, God be praysed, though many of ye company well wett with the storme. At ye brere house Mr. Bridgeman, yr Lps sonne, was goeing on board Welsh's barge; but it was so full of passingers as that I sent for him to come wth me; and by that meanes he gained Dublin a little sooner; for Welsh (as I heare) is arrived at Carlingford, 40 miles off this place. I shall be glad of a good occasion to give yor Lp some further account of Mr. Bridgeman's entertainment in this army, in wch I finde my Lo: Deputy very inclinable to further